Taxonomy Challenge falters

Today’s vote in the EP against the  Taxonomy Delegated act on natural gas and nuclear energy fell. On 14 June, 2022 a Joint Committee of the environment and economic committee backed the challenge.   As a delegated act, a challenge needed to get 353 votes in favour to veto the Commission’s delegated act. It is hard … Read more

Environment Committee votes against objection

On 6 December 2021, the Environment Committee considered the 3rd objection to the MRLs for flonicamid. The debate is worth listening to. The challenge failed.  The S&D did not support the challenge, so it fell.  There were clear signs of a lot of background briefings on the issue by the Commission on the details of … Read more